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Re: st: spmap guidance: Two variables resulting in shaded and sized circles centered on lon/lat
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Daniel Marcelino <[email protected]>
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Re: st: spmap guidance: Two variables resulting in shaded and sized circles centered on lon/lat
Date
Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:19:27 -0400
James, you can use the tmap "ssc install tmap"
tmap propsymbol population, ///
x(x) y(y) ///
map("Proportional population") ///
scolor(yellow)
Best,
Daniel
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:40 PM, James Sams <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use spmap to create a graph where each geographic entity for
> which I have data is represented by a circle centered over its central latitude
> and longitude sized by the population of data I have in that geographic entity
> and shaded according to the magnitude of another variable. So, the data is:
>
> Let's say the dataset to map looks like:
> geo_id (specifically 5 digit county-level fips codes)
> LON
> LAT
> id (generated by shp2dta)
> population
> variable_to_shade_by
>
> The coordinates file is uscoord (also generated by shp2dta) and has variables:
> _ID, _X, and _Y
>
>
> Is spmap the appropriate tool to do this? I don't see how to get the options to
> interact in the appropriate manner. Some pointers in the right direction would
> be much appreciated.
>
>
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